Politics

I have long said there has been the need for a new manifesto for the left. A friend of mine thinks that Marx is still alive and well but I am not sure I want to live in a communist society. I don't see how it works on a large scale and I am no fan of community.

I like socialism and I like government. I think government has improved as women's rights have improved and I think we have to keep watching government to make sure it is doing what we want it to. Certainly at the moment government needs a number of fixes so that it is serving the needs of the people, rather than the needs of corporations. I also think corporations made sure we, the people, have been distracted by television, giving us credit and making us slaves to debt. I say contact your congress people and make sure they are working for you. Let them know you are unhappy about healthcare, debt, drones, the patriot act, the NDAA, whatever.

One thing that severely bothers me is the dismissal of women as being a part of society. Women are a cornerstone of society and perhaps the most important work in society is done by and large by women. Women train children to do things that are completely ignored. Women turn babies into human beings, or members of society. This work is ignored specifically by the anti-abortionists who think the role of motherhood ends after delivery, when in fact that's when the real job begins in caring for a new baby around the clock. Needing constant feeding, burping, cleaning and changing. Then training it to talk, walk, use the bathroom, eat and all the things we consider civilized.

I was just reading a libertarians blog about society and he thought raising a child was making it accept authority to perpetuate the system. Then without government we go on some honor system where we don't need rules and come up with some kind of moral based judgment to make us live in our society.

Again these morals can only be invoked once we have learned empathy or the ability to understand the position of others, something that results from the work of women.

Do libertarians think the point of raising children is to submit to authority? When, I think, the point of raising children is really to learn how to cooperate in our society. Our cooperation in society is our strength. This is how we were able to not only survive as extremely mediocre predators (we are severely out performed by large predators), but we have huge brains and we know how to cooperate well and this is where humans go from a decent meal for a tiger to the most dangerous predator of all. Society grew out of our need to gather together to protect the young, to gather food and ensuring some level of redundancy so the young boys learn how to hunt, young girls learn how to gather and care for young and when the elderly can no longer hunt or gather can help care for those still too young. When you have a bunch of people together, there must be rules to ensure optimal cooperation. The basic rules of politeness were taught to us by our mothers and especially when dealing with our siblings. No one quibbles about women's work, it is out of the realm of discussion. Women's work is the lubricant of society, like road rules.

Its the men's stuff that libertarians have their issues with. We need someone to arbitrate when there is some dispute. We need someone who is fair when someone rapes our sister or kills our baby or takes our property, or to organize the tribes defense. Hence we have tribal leaders held together by charisma, personality and lastly by brute force. From this government evolved. The laws enacted, the arms of government, the things corporations forced government to do to enable corporations to flourish while we were not looking. These are the things that libertarians want to change, yet they don't look into the structure of society.

I say we cannot build a new utopia without looking at how women, children and men really interact in our society. My basic belief is if you fix women's position in society, society will automatically improve as we see with those countries where micro-credit is being given to women. India is improving, now that women's position is improving. China is improving because women are becoming rarer there, hence women are more powerful.

Love, our sense of belonging, our need for each other, our desire for one another is what makes our lives meaningful and worth living. Money doesn't make anyone happy. Its the perceived availability of women to men that gives rich men status and power. Its women's desire not to worry about resources that makes women want to marry rich men when it comes to raising their kids.

Hence all of society is blathering about economy, mainly just so they can score women. It is not just a womans reproductive capabilities that make women desirable, but the companionship they provide.

Make women's need for money when raising her kids no longer an issue and women will choose better partners. Men who are better will be chosen by women in preference to the dog eat dog men who chase money.

To read more, look at my politics blog, where I suggest fixes, look at the women and their relationships and discuss libertarian talking points.